DIY Overhead Control Panel

[seebart]

I'm sure some of you have seen this crazy custom input device:

http://imgur.com/a/DyQZL

This is my personal favorite of the lot:

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[klikkyklik]

This is my favorite.

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[Muirium]

A friend of mine wants to make some kit like that for his flight sims. You can build quite a cockpit that way, which does indeed interface with the simulation.

A lot f work of course. Especially as they all must glow at night, like real planes.

[Redmaus]

Yeah this was on reddit.

So cool. I wish more things today used real switches instead of rubber buttons. Like remotes.

[Findecanor]

Really fun project! Lots of geeky pop culture references. Me likes

The weird glyphs after WARNING are an alphabet from Star Wars called Aurebesh. It says "DON'T EVER PUSH THERE BUTTON" ...
The words under the toggles under MAIN SYSTEM are not all intelligible. Under the first I read "JOEY". Under the others I can read "VES" and "EPH". Probably "IVES" and "STEPH".

No I can't read Aurebesh fluently.. But I have used it. Like ten years ago or so, I made a couple of lightsabers with engraved Aurebesh script. When I costume (cosplay ), kids sometime come up to me and ask for my autograph - and then I write them my name and club ID in Aurebesh script.
BTW. A HAL panel replica is on my bucket list of props to build ...

[macmakkara]

hmm... i don't get these... propably because i see this at work everyday

[SL89]

Really fun project! Lots of geeky pop culture references. Me likes

The weird glyphs after WARNING are an alphabet from Star Wars called Aurebesh. It says "DON'T EVER PUSH THERE BUTTON" ...
The words under the toggles under MAIN SYSTEM are not all intelligible. Under the first I read "JOEY". Under the others I can read "VES" and "EPH". Probably "IVES" and "STEPH".
Personally, I think that people should use the special glyphs in Aurebesh for "PH", "AE", etc.

No I can't read Aurebesh fluently.. But I have used it. Like ten years ago or so, I made a couple of lightsabers with engraved Aurebesh script. When I costume (cosplay ) kids sometime come up to me and ask for my autograph - and then I write them my name and club ID in Aurebesh script.
A HAL panel replica is on my bucket list of props to build ...

I have the Aurebesh keyboard, I have it at work specifically. So nobody can use my keyboard

[Madhias]

I read about that overhead display guy today at heise.de on the toilet!

[webwit]

On the toilet's overhead display?

[Muirium]

Oh, you've got one of those fancy Japanese bidets! Very chic in the valley, I hear. Sergey won't leave the room without a "family wash", no matter what.

[Redmaus]

hmm... i don't get these... propably because i see this at work everyday

So cool, is that a helicopter cockpit? Or a plane? I can also see the trackball!

[XMIT]

hmm... i don't get these... propably because i see this at work everyday

NH90 huh? That's a big helicopter. Do you fly them, fix them, what?

[Findecanor]

After some quick googling, I find it likely to be a NH90 helicopter.
Finnish Army?

[XMIT]

After some quick googling, I find it likely to be a NH90 helicopter.
Finnish Army?

It's definitely an NH90. The photo that macmakkara supplied had NH90 in the URI.

[seebart]

On the toilet's overhead display?

Brilliant.

[macmakkara]

Im mechanic. At the moment im doing assembly.